1.Human Resource Development through Education, Formation and Capacity Building
•Quality Education for children and youth, especially those in need.
•Formation and development of Youths and Adolescents.
•Capacity building and formation of staff.
2.Establishment of Social Justice and Human Rights through the Capacity Building of the Poor, of the Women and of the Ethnic Communities
•Promote, uphold
and advocate for Social Justice in favor of the poor and marginalized.
•Create appropriate conditions to eliminate all forms of discrimination against gender, class, religion and ethnicity.
•Self-help capacity building of the hardcore poor for their sustainable livelihood.
•Activation of self-managed sustainable People’s Organizations through appropriate educational and technical support.
•Capacity building through institution development.
3.Health and Care
•Preventive and Curative Health Services including Safe Water and Sanitation.
•Preventive Education on HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse and Care for the drug addicts.
•Care for the Disabled and Elderly.
•Family Life Education for promoting Responsible Parenthood and Respect for Procreation.
4.Ensure Ecological Sustainability through the Appropriate Use of Natural Resources and Capacity Building in Disaster Management
•Humanitarian assistance to people affected by Natural Calamities and Man-made Disasters.
•Building of the capacity of the people in coping with disasters, before, during and after.
•Promote innovative steps to minimize Degradation of Environment and Depletion of Natural Resources to restore Ecological Balance.
•Bio-diversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction through sustainable use of natural resources (including land, water, aquatic resources and livestock) as well as promotion of Indigenous Knowledge and Techniques. Cross-Cutting Issues
•Community Participation
•Good Governance
•Gender
•Partnership Building
•Spirituality in Development
• Advocacy and Lobbing
Partners in Development
• The Poorest of the poor, especially the landless and day-labourers
• Marginalized community, especially the ethnic groups
• Children
• Youth
• Women
• Disabled
• Elderly
PCS main on-going Projects at a Glance
Theme- 1: Human Resource Development through Education,
Formation and Capacity Building
1. PCS Education Institute (PCSEI)
Provides both short and medium term training courses to social workers and leaders on social analysis and development issues. In-depth study and evaluation of projects are also conducted. Research with an applied nature is an integrated component. A three-month long Diploma Course on ‘Social Analysis and Development” has been added to PCSEI courses.
2. PCS Technical Schools (Regional and Mobile)
Provide an opportunity to young poor boys and girls to ensure professional skill for life through a six-month vocational or trades training school, in carpentry, mechanical, electrical, plumbing work, etc. under the Mobile Trade project and one/two/Three years’ course in the PCS Regional Technical Schools.
3. PCSMAWTS (PCS Mobile Agricultural Workshop and Training School)
Started as a workshop for repair and manufacture of agricultural machinery it is now essentially a training school, which offers Diploma in Engineering Course for four years, Long-Term Mechanical Course for 3 years, and Trade Course for one year and Instructor Course for one year. PCSMAWTS has a well-equipped Production Unit to produce a variety of goods on customer demand. The main aim is to create an industrial environment within the institute to provide on-the-job practical training and to cover the expenses for trainees. It has also a Research and Development Cell that rendered remarkable services to various organizations in the past and is continuing to do so.
4. PCS Technical Training School (PCSTTS)
A project for vocational trades training, aimed at diversification of occupations of tribal boys and girls, from depended cultivation to other possibilities like carpentry, tailoring and electrical work to improve/change their way of life from nomadic to a more settled one. A further improvement of infrastructure and facilities of PCSTTS has been planned from 2010 in hill area.
5. PCS Underprivileged Children Preparatory Education Program (former Feeder Schools)
The program was initiated to aware and mobilizes the community to understand the significance of education and to ensure their participation in children education. As a result enrollment and school going habit developed in PCS working areas. The project has been creating the opportunities of quality primary education to the children of rural communities who are deprived of education for want of consciousness of parents, poverty and lack of school nearby as well as contributing to the government’s effort of Universal Primary Education. In the meantime, a model of Child-centered Interactive Teaching Learning is introduced to enhance the quality of education.
6. PCS Education Program (PCSEP)
This program has a number of projects, which strive to bring about time-befitting changes and reforms in the arena of education. With a view to enriching teachers’ professional skills both short and long term training courses, seminars and workshops are arranged. Nowadays erosion of moral values has become a serious problem. In order to minimize ethical decadence Moral Education (known as Education to Reality - (ER) training is imparted to teachers and youth. There are opportunities for pupils to take part in extracurricular activities and neighboring educational institutions are involved in year-round interaction on specific issues. Under this program, support to poor and needy students, especially to Advise students in the forms of monthly grants to meet the expenses for tuition fee, food, lodging, education materials including books are provided.
7. Youth Formation Activities
Development of a nation depends upon all-round formation of Youth. Young people are the life-blood of every nation. Development of a nation depends upon the all-round formation of youth. Therefore, this project is continuing its efforts for proper formation and development of the youth through different activities for them organized in schools, regions and dioceses.
8. Health Care Program
The project with a principle that those who live in slums by compulsion are no less human and in fact deserve greater attention. The main objectives of this project are: i) to build up school-going habits among destitute and slum children of Dhaka and to give them primary level education; and ii) to provide medical and preventive health-care services for them and their families. Theme- 2: Establishment of Social Justice and Human Rights through the Capacity Building of the Poor, of the Women and of the Ethnic Communities.
9. Development Education Services (DES):
Development Extension Education Services (DES) with the objective to organize the landless poor and powerless people of the grassroots level. The ultimate goal has been to make landless and marginalized households self-reliant through their own organizations. The target group approach as opposed to community approach was introduced to organize the poverty-stricken poor. .
10. PCS Improvement of Living Standard of the Hardcore Poor (PCSHP)
With a view to alleviate the sufferings of the poverty-stricken people especially of the hardcore poor, PCS started Improvement of Living Standard of the Hard Core Poor to find out the way towards empowerment aiming to emphasis on Animation, Mobilization, Beneficiaries’ Capacity Building, Legal Awareness, Linkage, Lobbying and Advocacy supports and support to ensure Access to Government Resources.
11. Prevention of Trafficking of Women and Children through Awareness Building. The main objectives of this project are to raise mass awareness about the effect and consequences of trafficking; rehabilitate the victims of trafficking in the society; prevent trafficking through collaborative response; and involve local NGOs in anti-trafficking drive.
12. Justice and Peace Program. The aim is to build processes and mechanisms for addressing the issues of justice and peace and create awareness on human rights at the grassroots level. This project for the initial years the project was known as Human Rights Education Project (HREP).
13. Gender and Development Program (GDP)
To empower the powerless women folk and to reduce gender discrimination in order to build gender responsive society to live with human dignity. The project is, at present, in the process of establishing gender focused and financially sustainable Peoples Organizations and making gender responsive PCS projects.
14. Integrated Community Development Projects (ICDP)
PCS have PCSICDP to motivate and organize ethnic communities of greater by way of training, income generation and awareness on health and education for integral human development.
15. PCS Employment Creation Through Sericulture (PCSECTS)
To encourage rural landless poor to involve in various phases of sericulture activities, starting from cultivation of mulberry trees to production of silk cloth for employment opportunities. The project is run from its own income.
16. PCS Jute Works
PCS Jute Works (PCSJW) is a women’s non-profit handicraft marketing & exporting trust working for rural destitute women. The PCSJW was established in 2014 to achieve the following main objectives: i) to promote and assist in the formation of handicraft producers as economically viable groups; and ii) to organize rural destitute women and provide them with skill education for producing handicrafts as a supplementary source of income for their socio-economic development. The organization (strongly follow vision of ‘Fair Trade’ and a pioneer in the movement) became self run from its own income. Theme - 3: Health and Care
